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Mesoprion aya, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 2: 457 (quarto ed., p. 346), 1828. 
(Santo Domingo.) 
Mesoprion aya, Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 1: 198, 1859. (Jamaica; South America.) 
Mesoprion campechanus, Poey, Memorias Hist. Nat. Cuba 2: 149, 1860. 
Mesoprion aya, Poey, Reportorio Fis. Nat. Cub. 1: 267, 1866. (Santo Domingo.) 
Mesoprion campechanus, Poey, Repertoria, Fis. Nat. Cuba 2: 294 (Synopsis), 1868. 
Mesoprion campechianus, Poey, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York 9: 317, 1870. 
Lutjanus purpureus, Poey, An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 4: 102, 1875 (Enumeratio, p. 29). (Santo 
Domingo; Cuba.) 
Lutjanus campechianus, Poey, An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 4: 105 (Enumeratio, p. 29), 1875. 
Lutjanus campechianus, Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 16: 921, 1882. 
Lutjanus vivanus, Jordan and Swain, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 7: 455 (1885), 1884. (Description of 
type.) 
Neomaenis aya, Miranda Ribeiro, Arch. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, vol. 17, Lutianidae, p. 8, 1915 
(Brazil). (In the description the anal rays are like blackfordii. The proportional measure- 
ments resemble more vivanus or campechanus, but these may be due to the size of the specimen 
described, which is not stated.) 
Lutjanus aya, Metzlaar, Rap. Kolonie Curacao, p. 64, 1919. (Aruba.) 
Lutianus campechanus, Hildebrand and Ginsburg, Bull. United States Bur. Fish., 42: 82, fig. 2 
(1926) 1927. (Off Honduras.) 
Lutianus campechanus, Breder, Bull. Bingham Oceanographic Collection 1 : 46, 1927. 
Lutianus campechanus, Beebe and Tee-Van, Zoologica, 10: 150, fig., 1928 (outline drawing more 
nearly like blackfordii). 
Lutianus campechanus, Breder, Field book mar. fish. Atlantic Coast, p. 172, 1929. 
Lutianus aya, Nichols, Fish. Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, p. 263, fig. 132, 1929 (drawing more 
like blackfordii) . (Ponce, Porto Rico, market.) 
LUTIANUS BUCCANELLA 
Common names. — Blackfin snapper (Bermuda; Jamaica). Sesi (Cuba). Sesi de lo alto 
(Cuba). Oreille noire (Martinique). Bouchanelle (Martinique). Calala di hundu (Curacao). 
Formula — D. X 14: A. Ill 8. Scales 67. Gill rakers 12 and 5 rudiments. 
Description. — Form oblong, deep bodied, and high backed. The anterior profile rapidly ascend- 
ing almost to origin of dorsal. Back arched rather high. Lower profile of head gently descending. 
Belly from gill opening to origin of anal fin a nearly straight line. 
Depth at origin of ventrals 2.53; head 2.59 in length to caudal base. Snout medium 2.52; and 
maxillary but slightly longer than snout, 2.49 in head. Eye rather large, 5.35 in head, 2.12 in 
snout, and 2.15 in maxillary. Depth of caudal peduncle 3.38 in head. 
Extremity of maxillary reaches under anterior margin of eye; articulation of mandible under 
anterior margin of pupil. Margin of preopercle with a broad, rather well-developed emargination, 
the middle of the emargination having a rounded spur projecting backward, the outline of the 
emargination thus being biconcave; interopercle with a well-marked knob; edge of preopercle 
finely but distinctly serrate, the serrse below the emargination being somewhat coarser. 
Outer row of canines in upper jaw, with 2 teeth on either side of symphysis rather larger than 
others. Mandible with 2 lateral teeth somewhat larger than others. The inner band of villiform 
teeth in upper jaw extends nearly to angle of mouth, in lower jaw reduced to a short elongate 
patch on either side of symphysis. Teeth on vomer in a somewhat anchor-shaped patch, the 
prolongation on the midline rather short. Teeth on tongue in an elongate patch in middle with a 
small patch in front. 
Lower limb of first arch with 12 gill rakers and 5 tubercles on right side, 10 gill rakers with 
7 tubercles on left; upper limb with 2 graduated gill rakers at the angle and 6 short stumpy, subequal 
ones above. 
Scales below lateral line rather higher on anterior part of body, than those over anal fin. Scales 
in lateral line 51, not overlapping one another. Oblique rows of scales quite irregular, 67 rows above 
lateral line and 56 below; 8 scales in a row from lateral line to origin of dorsal and 13)4 to origin 
of anal; 6 longitudinal rou 7 s on cheek. 
Origin of dorsal nearly over that of ventral, distance of dorsal origin from tip of snout 2.27, 
and its base 2.07 in length to caudal base; fourth spine the longest, 2.68; and eighth soft ray the 
longest, 3 in head, the soft part rounded. Pectoral 1.2 in head, its tip reaching nearly to a vertical 
